To find a journal in Wesleyan's libraries once you have a citation to an article, first find out whether we have online access or a paper subscription. If we have a paper subscription, you need to know the call number and location of the journal.

If a journal title is not available at Wesleyan (either in print or online), you will need to make an interlibrary loan request for a copy of the article. Note that journal articles are not available through a CTW loan from Trinity or Conn College. CTW loans are for whole items to be checked out, such as books, videos, CDs, etc. For a copy of a journal article, you will need to place an interlibrary loan request.

Look up the journal title in the Journal Locator (available from the library's home page):

Type the journal title in the "Enter Search Term(s)" box Use default settings ("All Journals" and "Begins With") for an alphabetical list of all titles matching your search. Click "Go" to perform the search.

From the list of results, determine whether we have online access, a paper subscription, or whether the title is not listed in the Journal Locator:

The button indicates that we have a direct online subscription to the journal. Click the button or the underlined title to access the online version. The button indicates that the title is listed in the Wesleyan Library Catalog, which lists all our paper subscriptions and many of our online subscriptions. Click the button or the underlined title to search the Wesleyan Library Catalog, and see below for how to interpret the results and find the journal in the library. A button with a database name, such as , indicates that we have access to the journal through a subscription database. Click the icon for instructions on how to find the journal and article in that database, and then click the button for the database to connect to it. The Coverage & Notes column often indicates the dates covered for online editions, or whether the online edition is only abstracts as opposed to the full text of the article. For titles not in the Journal Locator, search the Wesleyan Library Catalog:

Searching for Journals in the Wesleyan Library Catalog:

Select the Specific Search option in the Wesleyan Library Catalog. Type the title of the journal in the box. Click to select a PERIODICAL search. Click to Search.

If you enter the full title of the journal for a "Periodical" search, you will likely get just one result, as in the above image. A search for a truncated title like "journal of economic" will likely get a longer list, such as the one to the right. If we have just a print subscription, the search results screen will indicate the call number and location. If we have just an online subscription, it will be labeled as an "electronic journal." If we have more than one subscription or type of access, click the journal title for more specific information. When you click a journal title, you get something that looks like the following image, which tells you what subscription(s) we have and where to find them in the libraries. For online subscriptions, it provides a clickable link which indicates which volumes are available. Sometimes, as in this case, we may have separate online subscriptions which include different volumes. You can also click "Full View" to see a publication history, list of assigned subject headings, and other details.